A BAD day at the office would probably be an understatement for Falmouth Town's showing against Witheridge at Bickland Park on Saturday.

The home side made hard work of their South West Peninsula League Premier clash as the visitors cruised to a 3-1 victory  in a performance where their crisp movement off the ball was not match by Town.

Proceedings kicked off ten minutes later than scheduled as some of the away side got stuck in traffic on their way down from Devon, but if they were in a rush it did not show at the start as Witheridge flew out of the blocks.

They looked eager to get on the scoresheet and peppered several shots at Jason Peters in goal before an unfortunate deflection off Glen Squires' head from Luke Coles' edge of the area shot sent the ball past the home stopper in the 17th minute.

Town will feel they should have had a penalty a little while before this when Squires was barged over by Cole at the other end, but referee Adam Price amazingly waved away the protests.

If this was a sign of it not being Town's day, then the second goal surely was as Cole saw another shot deflected, this time via the leg of Joe Cooper, in the 28th minute as the ball popped up and over Peters.

Witheridge backed off their hosts after the break as they felt little threat was coming from Town's attack and this was duly proven with stray passes mixed with decent defending halting any move.

A final nail was hammered into the coffin in the 73rd minute when Jordan Charran was found on the right wing from a cross field ball which led to him sprinting past Ross Pope before passing to Jack Langford who fired home.

In added on time, Town finally got a shot on target and with it a goal as after a free kick was not cleared out sufficiently, Steve Winnan sent in a deep cross from the right hand side.

Kayne Trevaskis got part of his body onto the ball, rolling it back into the path of Rob Wearne to slam a shot past Joe Moore in the six yard box.

Next up for Town is a daunting away trip to title chasers St Austell before back-to-back games with fellow high flyers Ivybridge Town.

FALMOUTH: Peters, Timmons, Pope, Whipp, Cooper (c), Bromley (Sims 65), Appleton, Wearne, Trevaskis, Squires, Winnan.